justice AmeriCorps

For decades, national service has been a cost-effective solution to critical challenges facing our communities and nation. Recognizing the value of national service in improving lives and strengthening communities, President Obama created the Task Force on Expanding National Service in July 2013 to expand national service to meet national needs through collaboration with other Federal agencies and the private sector.

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and the U.S. Department of Justice launched "justice AmeriCorps” to increase national service opportunities while enhancing the effective and efficient adjudication of immigration proceedings involving certain children who have crossed the U.S. Border without a parent or legal guardian.

The partnership is a grant program that will:

Enroll approximately 100 lawyers and paralegals as AmeriCorps members to provide legal services to the most vulnerable of these children,

Help identify unaccompanied immigrant children who have been victims of human trafficking or abuse to assist in the investigation and prosecution of those who perpetrate such crimes on those children,